ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Writers and playwrights working in the same era as Shakespeare included Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker.

Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is to be credited by Oxford University Press as Shakespeare’s co-writer on three of the Bard’s plays. Marlowe has long been suspected in some quarters of having a hand in some of Shakespeare’s works.

Detailed explanation-3: -Christopher Marlowe was an Elizabethan poet and William Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama. He is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse. In a playwriting career that spanned little more than six years, Marlowe’s achievements were diverse and splendid.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Shakespeare is widely regarded as greatest writer of the English language, and the world’s greatest dramatist. He wrote over 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and many other works.